How Much Should I Charge for a Window and Door Job?
Eight windows, a quick price at the kitchen table. Then two frames were rotten and the trim didn't match. You finished the job and drove home with less than you planned.
Put in your own numbers. The calculator adds your overhead, prices the job to the margin you want, and shows what you keep.
Windows and Doors Job Price Calculator
- Materials$4,800.00
- Labour$1,200.00
- Disposal and Trim$200.00
- Overhead$930.00
- Job cost$7,130.00
Questions
Should I quote each window as its own line?
Yes, when the sizes or styles differ. One line per window or door shows the homeowner what each one costs, and makes it easy to drop or add one without redoing the whole quote.
What if the frame is rotten when the old window comes out?
Say on the quote that hidden damage is priced once you can see it. Then quote the repair as its own line, priced the same way as the rest of the job.
Markup or margin: which should I use to price a window and door job?
Price from margin. Markup is your profit as a share of your cost. Margin is your profit as a share of the price. They are not the same number: mark a $1,000 cost up 30% and you charge $1,300, but your margin is 23%, because $300 is 23% of $1,300. Price from the margin you want and you know what you keep.
Should overhead go into the price of a window and door job?
Yes. Your truck, insurance, phone, tools and the hours you spend quoting jobs you don't win are all paid for by the jobs you do win. A simple way to set it: add up last year's overhead, divide it by last year's job costs, and use that percentage here.
How do I turn this price into a window and door quote?
Sign up for HomeJet free and build the quote with a line for each part of the job: materials, labour and the extras. HomeJet adds your sales tax. The quote stays on the job with the photos and notes, so when it's accepted your crew already has what they need and the invoice comes from the same lines. It's free for one-person businesses, with no credit card.
You Priced the Margin. Now Keep It.
A good price only holds if the job runs clean. In HomeJet the quote, the photos, the notes and your crew's updates live on one job, so nobody chases details by text and nothing falls through the cracks. Less chaos, fewer mistakes, more of this margin kept. Free for one-person businesses, no credit card.